7/02/2013

Berlin Fashion week 2013

I'm in Germany! I'm in Berlin! I'm so excited guys. I'm here for Berlin Fashion week 2013. I arrived on Saturday morning around 11 am. I left Nairobi on Friday 28th June at midnight for Amsterdam and took a connecting flight to Berlin.

First of all I am grateful and blessed to be here I've been invited by the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Inpolis, for Berlin Fashion Week. I'm not alone I'm with other 12 wonderful people from Africa that I'll talk bout in another post.

This is a learning experience for me as well as networking and getting to connect with people in Berlin that are involved in the fashion industry and also with the other guys who have been invited from other Africa Countries. The last two days I've had so much fun!

I'm going to go emotional on you guys. When I received an email that I was invited for Berlin Fashion week, I didn't believe it at all! Yes I was excited but I didn't believe it. I kept on telling my friends I'll believe it when I get there.

I haven't traveled outside Kenya and its been a dream of mine to travel to a fashion week anywhere in the world even in Africa! At the airport I still couldn't believe this was happening to me, well when the plane took off...I literally cried...I was like "oooh snap, this sh*t just got real"

Now more than ever I believe that dreams do come true. It's one thing to believe in your self and its a major thing for someone in a far of country to believe in you and give you an opportunity of a lifetime. I'm truly grateful.

It was an 8 hour flight to Amsterdam the took a connecting flight to Berlin, which is only an hour. In the last two days I've experienced so much, gotten culture shock but what I enjoy the most is the long days!It gets dark at 10 pm and the sun rises at 4:30 am! Very cool. I'm staying at the beautiful Hotel Angleterre in Berlin, Friedrichstraße.

Well I have a full week but I wont miss a day of blogging! Today I'm attending the Africa Fashion Day Berlin, you can read about it. I took these photos on my first day here before I checked onto the hotel. I still have many more to share.

42 comments

Wow!!! I can feel your excitement from this post. I am very happy for you. For sure, great things!!! Allow me to share a verse Prov 18.16 A gift opens the way for the giver and ushers him into the presence of the great.

Nancei! This brought tears to my eyes and I'm soooo excited for you. This is just a beginning of better things to come. You're an inspiration to me and many other bloggers. Keep up the great work and have fun!!!!!!!!

heeyy,,am so hapie for you,funny coincidence av been checking out your website and page for years now,,and we share in so many passions and interests,,and i would always be so glad for you coz ad say a´ve seen you refine and blossom,,my hugest dream has been to travel get out of kenya,,see everything i see in magazines,,the shops ,fashion shows,just like almost what you've always dreamed of too,n funny enough you landed at the same time and day as i, only you in berlin and am in Austria,,:) have a fantastic and lovely time,,,its our time to florish,,let evey minute count darl

Of all the designers in Berlin, one of the most entrancing is Tata Christiane. The brainchild of French-born Julie Bourgeois and Hanri Gabriel, they blend imaginative colors and mystic shapes to evoke high fashion from a slightly different universe; outlandish yet dignified, even majestic. This year they’ll be presenting their new capsule collection “Bloody Monday”, inspired by the need to escape from ennui. As Bourgeois explains in a recent interview, she saw a documentary which interviewed those so bored with life that it became a physical condition that they would do anything to escape from—including resorting to murder, as one interviewee had. And what is fashion, if not an escape?

You know what I love most about this post (I know I am late in reading it, but still), the sincerity of it. Like so many others have pointed out, I got excited just reading cos it's so clear how happy and excited you were writing it! I loved keeping up with your adventure on Instagram and I am still so happy for you and so very proud of everything you have achieved.

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